ship-issues: batch orchestrator Agent Skill

Ship a batch of work-units (tracker issues, or the current local changes) end to end and concurrently: implement, comment-cleanup, review…

Context cost
8.8k tokensestimated from the bundle, loaded when it triggers
Bundle
6 files · 35.1 kBtext throughout, nothing executable
Licence
not declarednone named by its author
Last change
—no release on file
Servers it uses
Noneruns standalone

What it does

Ship a batch of work-units (tracker issues, or the current local changes) end to end and concurrently: implement, comment-cleanup, review and address, then push and open a PR for each, keeping the project's living docs current. Use for "ship all the todo issues", "knock out issues 111 through 120", "batch-fix these tickets and open PRs", "clear the todo column", "run the multi-issue workflow". Resolves the work-unit set from config.source, groups into concurrent lanes, and chains the ship-it stage skills per work-unit. Checkpoints on a plan first.

What this skill changes about the agent has not been set out here as a list. Its SKILL.md, shown below, says it in the author’s own words.

productivity

The skill itself

A skill is instructions the model reads, so you can see what you are getting: below is the start of its SKILL.md. The front matter loads with every session, the body loads when the skill triggers, and the whole file comes with the install.

SKILL.md12.7 kB · preview
--- name: ship-issues allowed-tools: Bash, Read, Write, Edit, AskUserQuestion, Agent, Workflow, Skill, ToolSearch ---
7# ship-issues: batch orchestrator
8
9Drive a set of work-units to open PRs concurrently, chaining the ship-it stage skills per work-unit, then keep the project's living docs current. Generic: every project specific lives in ship-it.config; the flow does not. Load the resolved config once up front with ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/load-config.sh (defaults applied, @FILE refs like houseRules: @AGENTS.md inlined) and read keys with jq. Read references/workflow.md before Phase 5 (the lane algorithm and the Workflow template to adapt).
10
11## Phase 1: Resolve the work-units
12
13**If the trigger names no issue selection, ask first** (do not default to a status like "all todo"): use AskUserQuestion to ask what to ship, a status, a range, specific ids, or the current changes, then resolve. When a selection is given, read config.source and expand it into concrete work-units:
14- **tracker**: list/get issues via the tracker adapter (config.source.tracker: type + project/team/idPrefix, or a custom resolver skill). A status ("all todo"), a range ("111-120"), or an explicit list. Each work-unit carries id, title, desc, branch (the tracker's branch name, which carries the auto-close link), url.
15- **working-tree / branch / pr / describe**: build a single work-unit from local state or a description.
16
17Read each item's full intent. If any is ambiguous in a way that changes the implementation, batch the open questions into one AskUserQuestion now. All interactivity is front-loaded here and at the Phase 3 checkpoint. See references/sources.md for the source dispatch, the built-in tracker adapters (github-issues, linear), the local sources (working-tree / branch / pr / describe), and the custom-tracker extension point.
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19**Trigger tokens.** Three optional switches, anywhere in the trigger: a **skip-confirmation** token (skip confirm, no confirm, no checkpoint, without asking, just do it, yolo, -y, --yes) turns off the Phase 3 checkpoint; a **skip-docs** token (no docs, skip docs, code only, no specs) turns off the whole documentation phase (Phase 6) for this run, regardless of config.docs.enabled; a **skip-planning** token (no plan, skip plan, skip planning) turns off the Phase 2 plan pass (it falls back to a thin scope pass), regardless of config.planning.enabled.
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21## Phase 2: Plan and group into lanes
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231. **Plan pass** (parallel, read-only): unless config.planning.enabled is false (default true) or a skip-planning token is in the trigger, produce one comprehensive plan per work-unit, concurrently. Spawn each as a **Plan agent** (the built-in architect subagent: subagent_type: 'Plan', read-only, high reasoning effort) invoking **ship-it:plan-one-issue**, so each plan rivals an interactive plan-mode plan (it reads the real code, weighs alternatives, names reuse, and lays out decisions, edge cases, verification, and risks) at the depth set by config.planning.depth. Each returns { plan, predictedFiles, docNeed, complexity, openQuestions }. If planning is off, fall back to a thin **scope pass**: one Explore subagent per work-unit for predicted files, a one-line approach, and the doc classification. Either way, read to plan, do not implement.
242. **Post each plan as a proposal** (if config.planning.postBack): post each work-unit's plan back to its source as a **proposed** plan now, so it is reviewable on the tracker and not only in the terminal (idempotent, marker-keyed; see references/sources.md). Local sources have no tracker, so the plan stays on screen.
253. **Group into lanes** by the overlap-graph algorithm in references/workflow.md (connected components of "edit the same file"), using each work-unit's predictedFiles. Lanes run concurrently; within a lane, work-units run sequentially on stacked branches.
This is a preview of SKILL.md. Download or install the skill to get the whole thing.
In the file
SKILL.md1,751 words
Files6
Licencenot declared
Why you can read it

Nothing in a skill executes. The client loads the text and the model follows it, so a skill can be audited the way a runbook is — by reading it.

What it costs in context

Skills are not billed by the call. They are paid for in context: every token the instructions occupy is a token your code, your diff and your conversation cannot use. Here is what this one takes and when it takes it.

≈190
always loaded
The name and description, so the model knows the skill exists and when to reach for it.
8,585
on trigger
The instruction body and 5 supporting files, read only when the skill fires.
4.4%
of a 200k window
Ten skills this size would take about 44% of the window before you open a file.
050k100k150k200k context window

8.8k tokens, estimated from the bundle at four bytes to the token, held for the rest of the session once it triggers. Heavy. Teams tend to install this one per project rather than globally, and load it only when the job comes up.

Servers bill, skills cost

A server charges by the month. A skill charges once per session, in context, and then keeps charging it for as long as the session lives.

Before and after

The same question, put to the same model twice: once as it comes, and once with these instructions loaded.

No worked example has been published for this skill yet.

The procedure it runs

The procedure has not been set out here step by step. It is in the body of its SKILL.md: the start of it is shown above, and the whole file comes with the install.

Prose, not code

These steps are written for a model to follow, not executed by a runtime. It can still be told to skip one, and it will say so when it does.

Servers it uses

None. This skill calls no MCP servers at all.

Everything it needs is in the instructions, so it works in a project with nothing connected — the model reads the file and changes how it works with what it can already reach.

It asks the agent to write files, using whatever file access your client already has. Whether it reaches the network is not declared.

What it asks for
Writes filesyes
Network accessnot declared

Read from the allowed-tools line of this skill’s own SKILL.md. It also asks for Bash, which could do either, so what is not named there is not ruled out. A skill grants no permissions of its own — it can only ask for tools your client already has.

What it will not do

Every skill is narrow, and the useful ones say where they stop. These are the jobs this one is the wrong tool for.

What this skill is not for has not been published here. Nothing is implied by that: it is a section the author has not filled in.

What is in the bundle

6 files, 35.1 kB on disk. A bundle is text throughout: the instructions the model reads, plus the templates it fills in.

  • SKILL.md12.7 kB
  • evals/evals.json1.4 kB
  • evals/trigger-evals.json2.3 kB
  • references/doc-jobs.md4.9 kB
  • references/sources.md4.8 kB
  • references/workflow.md9.0 kB
What is not in it

No dependencies and nothing executable: a skill is text the agent reads, so the bundle is 6 files you can review in full before installing.

Install

Installing copies the bundle into your project. Nothing runs at install time — the files sit on disk until the model reads them.

# ship-issues: batch orchestrator · 8.8k tokens when loaded · macOS, Linux mkdir -p .claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/ship-issues-batch-orchestrator/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/ship-issues-batch-orchestrator" ] && { [ ! -e .claude/skills/ship-issues-batch-orchestrator ] || { mv .claude/skills/ship-issues-batch-orchestrator "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/ship-issues-batch-orchestrator" .claude/skills/ && echo "Installed .claude/skills/ship-issues-batch-orchestrator"
On Windows, or any OS with Node 20+
npx mcprush@latest skill add pricklywiggles/ship-issues-batch-orchestrator

Windows PowerShell says 'running scripts is disabled on this system'? Run Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope CurrentUser RemoteSigned once, or type npx.cmd instead of npx (codex.cmd, gemini.cmd, grok.cmd likewise). PowerShell 7 needs neither. Writes to .claude/skills/ship-issues-batch-orchestrator/ in the current project. For every project instead, run mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/ship-issues-batch-orchestrator/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/ship-issues-batch-orchestrator" ] && { [ ! -e ~/.claude/skills/ship-issues-batch-orchestrator ] || { mv ~/.claude/skills/ship-issues-batch-orchestrator "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/ship-issues-batch-orchestrator" ~/.claude/skills/ && echo "Installed ~/.claude/skills/ship-issues-batch-orchestrator" (macOS, Linux) — or add --global to the npx line. The curl line replaces .claude/skills/ship-issues-batch-orchestrator/ only after the download succeeds, so files left there by another skill of the same name, or by an older release, do not mix in. A copy already there is moved aside, not deleted, and the line prints where. It appears as ship-issues in Gemini CLI, Codex, Copilot and Grok (its own name); Claude Code lists it by the folder name, ship-issues-batch-orchestrator.

Which clients pick it up on their own

A skill is a folder of text. Most of these read a skills folder and pick it up without being told; the rest take the same folder another way — an upload in the app, a parameter on an API call — and then choose it by its description just the same.

Claude Code.claude/skills/
Claude DesktopCustomize › Skills
ChatGPTSkills › Create › Upload
Cursor.cursor/skills/
VS Code.github/skills/
Codex CLI.agents/skills/
Gemini CLI.gemini/skills/
Grok Build.grok/skills/
Microsoft CopilotSkills › Upload a skill
PerplexityComputer › Skills › Upload a skill
DeepSeek Harness.dsh/skills/
Zed.agents/skills/
Devin Desktop.devin/skills/
Windsurf (legacy).windsurf/skills/
OpenAI Agents SDKInstructions or sandbox Skills
HTTP / APIa request parameter
This release
Versionnot versioned
Publishedno release date on file
PriceFree
Referencepricklywiggles/ship-issues-batch-orchestrator

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